"d," "e"
Five of spades? Yes, very nice.
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We have here a deck of playing cards
and why don't you just give it a mix
please. A little mix,
a little shuffle. Nicely
done. All right, cards are all mixed up?
I'd like you to please do the standard
method - take
a card. Go ahead. Show it to the camera.
Alright, excellent? Excellent.
And why don't you put it right there.
Cut the deck and let's see,
this card trick is a little different as this is
psychology. What I'm going to do is, I'm
going to go through the deck
and based on your response,
and it's not something you're going to
realize, but you're going to
signal to me what your card is just by
happening to see it.
So we're going to go through.
Okay, I'm not sure. I'm just not sure that I got
much of an impression.
hmmmm.
Maybe I'll have to switch methods here.
hmmmm.
So what was the card please? [spectator] Five
of spades. Five of spades?
You know what? Just for fun we're
going to spell "five of spades"
f - i - v
e - o - f
- s - p - a
-d - e
Five of spades? Yes, very nice.
Five of spades.
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Spelling to a card. All you will need for this
easy card trick
is a regular deck of cards. I really like
this card trick because it's completely
impromptu and
you can do this with pretty much any
deck of cards.
And you don't need cards in any kind of
order . 0:02:29.840,0:02:36.080 And so it's called the "spelling trick."
So you can have the spectator
mix up the cards any way that they like.
Pick a card. So the spectator picks a
card.
Now I'm going to do the exposed view
here, "queen of diamonds."
Well, tell you what, let's go with
something a little easier just for
explanation purposes. I want something -
it'll still be a random process obviously and
they'll be able to select any card they
want, but let's,
we'll assume that they picked that "two
of clubs."
And that way we don't have to spell
quite as much for this explanation.
So while they're looking at the card - it
was a free choice to pick the two of
clubs -
what you do is you secretly look at the
bottom card here, which happens to be the
four of spades.
You don't care about this card. All you
care about is the "four of spades" at this
point.
Think in your mind "four of spades." Don't
forget that card.
Now place the deck down, have them cut
and place their card over it. Place the rest of the deck
to complete the cut. But remember, they're
putting the four spades, the card that
you remembered, on top
of their card.
Now you're ready to go through this ploy.
I like to use this ploy. I tell them
that
IU'm going to look for a physical
response from them, something they won't
know about
but that I will be able to look at.
It's a "tell." That's what they call it
in poker, that will indicate to me.
They might blink or they might get
nervous or something when they see their
card.
So when you go through the cards you're
just showing them the cards,
but all you're doing is looking for that
"four of
spades. So here, let me just turn it this
way because I don't have to show anybody
over there.
But all you're looking for is the "four
of spades." So kind of go through,
you can go slow and act like you're
looking for some kind of response from
them, but there it is "four of spades."
Once I find the "four of spades," the card, I
remembered,
then I look at the card underneath which
is the "two of clubs."
Now I know that is their card because of
the "four of spades"
went right over the "two of clubs."
Now comes the part where as I'm showing
the cards, once I
know their card, I think in my mind "two
of clubs."
Then, as I go through the rest of the
deck I actually spell
"two of clubs." t -
w - o -
o - f - c - l -
u - b - s. If you go back to the performance
you can see how I kind of casually did
this.
But all I did was continue to go through
acting like I'm looking for some kind of
response from them
and then what I do is I remember and
mark this spot here
where I've spelled out "two of clubs" and
then I kind of get towards the end. I say
"Okay, I'm not sure I got it." But
at this point you take this pile and
place it on top
and then turn over the deck and now it's
ready because this is in order
of the "two of spades" that you can spell
to find the card. So if you like you can
do a false cut.
And so at this point you ask them what
their card is and they'll say the "two of
clubs" or
if you're doing another card it'll be
whatever the card it is, and then you spell
"two of clubs," t - w
o - o - f - c
l - u -b and you said "two of clubs" and
yes, it is "two of clubs" and you have
spelled
to their playing card.
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